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SUNDAY, JANUARY U, 1931.
Westerville's Action in Planning to Erect ^'Darling Nellie Grayer Author Protested
Seven Mile Also Enters Fray Claiming Hanby Wrote Som
Memarial To by Ruskville
.^ While Tliere.
By HUGH FtJLLERTON.
WESTERVILLE. Is preparing at least to establish a memorial to Benjamin Rus- sel Hanby. And Rushville and Seven Mile are gritting their mu- ! nicipal teeth and wailing against the claims of the capital of the Anti-Saloon league. i Westerville citizens, led by : Maude Alice Hanawald, honorary
¦ president *of the Hanby Music \ cltib. Former President T. J. Sand- ; er.g, of Otterbein university and : backed by the Chamber of Com- I merce, the university and by i civic organizations, propose that I the old mansion in which Hanby, ' then a young man, is said to ! have written and sung "Darling j Nelly Gray" shall be restored, I moved to a site of honor in the
i proposed new city park and kept j as a shrine. Rushville, In Fair- I fleld county where Hanby was I born, disputes Westerville's ' claims, and on top of that Seven
¦ Mile, at the endge of Cincinnati, I presents claims that Hanby wrote I the song while teaching there.
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BETWEEN Rushville and West¬ erville the dispute waxes hot, with Westerville leading and it seems to me Seven Mile's claim may be safely disregarded as It is proved that the song was copyrighted four years before Hanby went to Seven Mile to teach and preach.
Despite Rushville's claim that Hanby wrote the song while liv¬ ing there, Westerville is going right ahead, planning to move i the old mansion to a new site, I and to request the Ohio legis¬ lature to appropriate funds to restore and move the building, such a bill being prepared for ; ' presentation to the present legis- • \.lature by 0. B. Go I breath of the i i^hio Archn--'—' -' --' "'-^-"' I cM society, IWestervlll'e!'
' Mr.'"GlibreOTn-flnacr"^He~afcEeo-" logical society incline to support the claims of WestervllI- to the honor of being the birthplace of
, the song which swept the United States as no other song ever has done and which stirring the sen¬ timents of the North was one Of
, the factors m arousing the North against the institution of slavery.' .
* * JP the Village of Rushville wants to honor the memory of Hanby It can erect a memorial stating that he was born there on July ,^&^§33, the son of Bishop Wll- li^tt^ Hanby pf the United Brethren church, a leader in thp
and a
Under-
cologicp.I and Historl- jat the ..request ol ; onganizations.
antl-slavery movement statlon^ agent on the ground railway.
yy ^^"""^ "^^^ J"'*^* a happy, eckless. mischievous country.
5r r^- '"* ^^'"^ chlldhoJd and he learned easily. At xo he was sent to Westerville to'-attend f^r"'^^!" ""^^^^sity, ana at the end of his first year in Otterbein flight school m the Clear Creek
¦school in Fairfield county. That was in 1849-50.
The dates have significant bearing upon the argument as to when and where the famous song was written. Although the anti-slavery movement was stir¬ ring at that time the qviestions involved had not become acijte, nor had the fugitive slave ques¬ tion stirred Ohio as it did later.
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Bmi HANBY joined the church in his first year at Otterbein, sang in the choir and studied music. He must have startec to teach singing while studylnr music. Then Bishop Hanby move with his family to Westerviir (Continued on Page 2—B.)
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M,
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mmdn:
SUNDAY, JANUARY U, 1931.
Westerville's Action in Planning to Erect ^'Darling Nellie Grayer Author Protested
Seven Mile Also Enters Fray Claiming Hanby Wrote Som
Memarial To by Ruskville
.^ While Tliere.
By HUGH FtJLLERTON.
WESTERVILLE. Is preparing at least to establish a memorial to Benjamin Rus- sel Hanby. And Rushville and Seven Mile are gritting their mu- ! nicipal teeth and wailing against the claims of the capital of the Anti-Saloon league. i Westerville citizens, led by : Maude Alice Hanawald, honorary
¦ president *of the Hanby Music \ cltib. Former President T. J. Sand- ; er.g, of Otterbein university and : backed by the Chamber of Com- I merce, the university and by i civic organizations, propose that I the old mansion in which Hanby, ' then a young man, is said to ! have written and sung "Darling j Nelly Gray" shall be restored, I moved to a site of honor in the
i proposed new city park and kept j as a shrine. Rushville, In Fair- I fleld county where Hanby was I born, disputes Westerville's ' claims, and on top of that Seven
¦ Mile, at the endge of Cincinnati, I presents claims that Hanby wrote I the song while teaching there.
I , Jf +J* ^
BETWEEN Rushville and West¬ erville the dispute waxes hot, with Westerville leading and it seems to me Seven Mile's claim may be safely disregarded as It is proved that the song was copyrighted four years before Hanby went to Seven Mile to teach and preach.
Despite Rushville's claim that Hanby wrote the song while liv¬ ing there, Westerville is going right ahead, planning to move i the old mansion to a new site, I and to request the Ohio legis¬ lature to appropriate funds to restore and move the building, such a bill being prepared for ; ' presentation to the present legis- • \.lature by 0. B. Go I breath of the i i^hio Archn--'—' -' --' "'-^-"' I cM society, IWestervlll'e!'
' Mr.'"GlibreOTn-flnacr"^He~afcEeo-" logical society incline to support the claims of WestervllI- to the honor of being the birthplace of
, the song which swept the United States as no other song ever has done and which stirring the sen¬ timents of the North was one Of
, the factors m arousing the North against the institution of slavery.' .
* * JP the Village of Rushville wants to honor the memory of Hanby It can erect a memorial stating that he was born there on July ,^&^§33, the son of Bishop Wll- li^tt^ Hanby pf the United Brethren church, a leader in thp
and a
Under-
cologicp.I and Historl- jat the ..request ol ; onganizations.
antl-slavery movement statlon^ agent on the ground railway.
yy ^^"""^ "^^^ J"'*^* a happy, eckless. mischievous country.
5r r^- '"* ^^'"^ chlldhoJd and he learned easily. At xo he was sent to Westerville to'-attend f^r"'^^!" ""^^^^sity, ana at the end of his first year in Otterbein flight school m the Clear Creek
¦school in Fairfield county. That was in 1849-50.
The dates have significant bearing upon the argument as to when and where the famous song was written. Although the anti-slavery movement was stir¬ ring at that time the qviestions involved had not become acijte, nor had the fugitive slave ques¬ tion stirred Ohio as it did later.
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